blindness
Last night we watched Blindness. The basic premise is that people across some fictitious city are suddenly getting afflicted by 'white' blindness, where all they can see is white. The initial group is quarantined in what appears to be an old hospital, and the film then goes on to show what happens to them as society & civilization breaks down. The concept had so much promise, but the execution was horrible. For starters, it almost felt like a zombie thriller with hoards of people stumbling around with their arms outstretched, tripping over each other and behaving belligerently towards everyone around them. Apparently the film is suggesting that's what blind people are like. Then there were the multitude of plot holes which were stacked up on top of each other to the extent that you had to suspend all disbelief to make it to the end. Only one person is unafflicted by the blindness, yet no explanation is ever provided. The majority of the population disappears, without explanation. And on and on. Then the characters are almost all uniformly miserable, unlikable for one reason or another. So while they could have done alot with the concept, instead they chose to just let it degenerate into violence & stupidity.